Russian Courses

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
RUSS 100-01	Russia and the West Instructor: Elena Duzs Course Description: Taught in English.	1330:MR BOSLER 208
RUSS 101-01	Elementary Russian Instructor: Maria Rubin Course Description: An intensive study of the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with an emphasis on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Short stories and songs will supplement the text.	1330:MTWRF BOSLER 211
RUSS 104-01	Elementary Russian Instructor: Maria Rubin Course Description: An intensive study of the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with an emphasis on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Short stories and songs will supplement the text.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 211
RUSS 104-02	Elementary Russian Instructor: Maria Rubin Course Description: An intensive study of the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with an emphasis on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Short stories and songs will supplement the text.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 211
RUSS 200-01	Adv Train Russian Language Instructor: Elena Duzs Course Description: Emphasis on the development of reading, speaking, and writing skills. Reading of simple texts to acquaint the student with a variety of styles of the Russian language, concentration on some of the more difficult problems in the Russian grammar, translation, written composition, vocabulary building, and intonation. Prerequisite: 116 or equivalent, with a grade of at least C.	1030:MTWR BOSLER 305
RUSS 224-01	Revolution, Dissidence in Lit Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio Course Description: An introduction to Russian literature, presenting its development and the major literary movements from the middle of the 19th century to the present. Readings will include works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, Blok, Mayakovsky, Babel, Zamiatin, Gladkov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, Trifonov, Shukshin, and Aitmatov. No knowledge of Russian necessary. Conducted in English. This course fulfills the DIV I.b. distribution requirement. Offered every other year.	1330:TF BOSLER 307
RUSS 232-01	Masterpieces of Russian Lit Instructor: Elena Duzs Course Description: Reading and discussion of literary works by representative authors from the pre- and post-Revolutionary periods. Prerequisite: 200 or the equivalent, with a grade of at least C.	1230:MWF BOSLER 213
RUSS 260-01	Islam in Eurasia Instructor: Dominic Rubin Course Description: Cross-listed with RELG 260-01 and MEST 200-01. Taught in English This course explores the spread, development and influence of Islam in Eurasia. For our purposes, Eurasia includes the regions of Central Asia, the Transcaucasus and Russia. Students will gain an understanding of how Islam came to the region with the Arab conquests and Mongol conversions, how it was perceived by the expanding Russian state in the late middle ages and early modernity, what role Islam played under communism, and how Islamic identity has come to the fore again in the post-Soviet space. The focus will be both religious (e.g. comparing features of Islamic devotion, such as Sufism, with local non-Islamic religion and central Arab Islam) as well as political (examining the role of Islam in the Chechen conflict, the link between Afghanistan and Central Asia in the rise of jihad, and the meaning of neo-Eurasianism in post-Soviet political discourse).	1500:TF BOSLER 213
RUSS 334-01	Workshop in Translation Instructor: Alyssa DeBlasio Course Description: This course focuses on specific techniques for translating various kinds of texts (business, journalistic, scholarly, epistolary, and literary) from Russian into English, and from English into Russian. Concentrating on the practical matter of reading and writing, the course will also include special grammatical topics which present particular difficulties in translation, discussion of theories of translation, and introduction to technological tools of translation. The goal of the course is to further students language ability and provide them with useful linguistic skills. Prerequisite: 231, 232 or equivalent. Offered every two years.	1330:W BOSLER 305